Blow-gun



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No. 239,633. Patented April 5,1881.

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CHRISTOPH ALEX, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BLOW-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,633, datedApplication filed August 23, 1880.

i juvenile marksman to take aim, will throw the missile a considerabledistance without great effort on the part of the operator, and will atthe same time be simple and cheap in con struction.

My inventionconsists in the peculiar novel devices and combinations ofdevices employed by me, as fully hereinafter explained, and poi n tedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure I is aperspective view of the toy gun; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of thebarrel of the same on the line of the blowtube', the stock being inelevation; and Fig. 3, a separate view of the removable mouth-piece.

'Likje letters denote corresponding parts in all the figures. I

A is the stock of the gun, and B the barrel, both made of wood. Thestock is shaped to fit the shoulder, and has somewhat more rise to thebarrel than usual, in order to give room the missile.

The barrel B is made in two halves, a b, the lower half being in onepiece with the stock, while the upper half terminates at the breech ofthe gun. The two halves at b of the barrel are grooved to form a longtube, 0, extending from the muzzle of the barrel through the breech ofthe same. The halves of the barrel are secured together by straps c c,which may have points turned up to form sights.

In the breech of the gun is inserted a short metal tube, d, permanentlysecured therein. D is another short tube, which slides removably withinthe tube d into the breech of the gun. This tube 1) has an offset, a, atits outer end, to which is attached a flaring mouth-piece, f, suchmouth-piece being located by means of April 5, 1881.

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the offset below and to one side of the barrel. The tube D has anopening, 9, in its side, through which the missile is inserted into suchtube, the opening being within the gun when it is operated. The tube 4serves to make a close fit with the removable tube I), so that the fullforce of the blast of air will be utilized.

To use the toy gun the tube D is removed and themissile is placedtherein through opening g. Then the tube is pushed into the breech ofthe gun, the mouth-piece at the same time being adjusted to the properposition. The gun is then raised to the shoulder, the lips are put tothe mouth-piece, and the eye of the marksman glances along the barrel.When the object is in proper range he blows into the mouth-piece, andthe missile is projected from the gun. The gun can then be reloaded, asbefore described.

The offset in the pipe D permits the mouthpiece to be located sothat thegun can be aimed at the same time that it is operated.

The fealu res of construction before described could also be applied totoy pistols without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a toy blow'gun, the combination,with the stock and thebarrel having a blow-tube, of the removable tubeD, having offset 6 and inouth-piece f, and provided with the opening 9,through which the missile is placed in such tube D, said opening 9 beinginclosed within the blow-tube when the parts are in position forejecting the missile, substantially as described and shown.

2. In a toy blow-gun, the combination, with the stock, of the barrel,made in two longitudinal pieces, of wood, grooved and secured togetherso as to form the blow-tube 0, the metal tube at in the end of theblow-tube, and the removable tube D, having mouth-piece, and projectinginto such tube d, substantially as described and shown.

UHRISTOPH ALEX. Witnesses:

F. W. KAsEHAeEN, H. A. BAUMANN.

